Portal:American Civil War/DYK/05

...that the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland 's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade?
...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
...that the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
...that the Emancipation Memorial (pictured), a monument in Washington, DC depicting Abraham Lincoln in his role of the "Great Emancipator", was paid for by former slaves?